To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.