It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

We do not suffer by accident.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.