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

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

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

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.