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

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

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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

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

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.