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.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.