Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.