Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.