Whatever interests is interesting.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.