Syllables govern the world.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.