Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government