We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.