You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Believe the best of everybody.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.