To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Sit loosely in the saddle.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.