Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.