In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

Thought is the seed of action.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

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.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.