Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.