Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

I say that justice is truth in action.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.