The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.