"It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes." — William E. Gladstone

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.