One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.