I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.