One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.