To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.