Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Song is the heroics of speech.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

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

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!

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.