It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.