The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?