A man's library is a sort of harem.

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere