When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.