Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.