Biography is the only true history.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.