Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?