A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.