You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

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

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.

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

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

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

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