Leslie Stephen

“A foul-mouthed judge is a public nuisance.”

“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.”

“The question 'What is the good of it?' is a question which is not, and never can be, answered by men who have done anything great.”

“The true secret of happiness is to be interested in all the details of daily life.”

“The only way to get a great deal of money is to take it from others.”

“The general tendency of reading is to deaden the critical faculties.”

“The Alpine Club is a society of men who have not only scaled the summits of the loftiest mountains, but have also shown that they possess the qualities of courage, endurance, and self-reliance.”

“A cynic is a man who is observing the world as it is, and not as it ought to be.”

“The whole art of life consists in giving pain for pain.”

“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

“A man who does not know what has been thought by those who have gone before him is sure to think shallowly and to think confusedly.”