To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.