When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.