Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!