An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

All government is an ugly necessity.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.