In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.
Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.