Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.