The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.