The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

All progress is experimental.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.