Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.
To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.
Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.