A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at