The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.