There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

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

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.