Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America