It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.