No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Good temper is an estate for life.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.