We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

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

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.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

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