My books are friends that never fail me.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

The actual well seen is ideal.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.