I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.