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

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.

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.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

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