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

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.

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

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

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.

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.