A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

Immitation is suicide.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.