People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.