Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.