The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.