An energy is a soul — a something working in us. - Samuel Butler

But the main argument on which they rely is that of economy: for they know that they will sooner gain their end by appealing to men's pockets, in which they have generally something of their own, than to their heads, which contain for the most part little but borrowed or stolen property.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted.