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.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.