Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.