You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.