I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.