I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

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

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.

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

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

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

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