He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

Only law can give us freedom.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.