That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.