There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.