When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!