Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.