One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

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

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.