Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.