It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.