The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Isolation breeds conceit.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.