Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

Faith never makes a confession.

There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.