I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.