Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.