Be a gift and a benediction.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

The reality is more excellent than the report.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.