It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.