There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who c...
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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