Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.