A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.