Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

A forte always makes a foible.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.