A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.