Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.