London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

The lover of letters loves power too.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself