Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.