I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.