By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.