Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.