I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.