A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.