That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

Song is the heroics of speech.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.