Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.