It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.