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

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.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.