Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

"Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT."

"As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence."

"A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself."