Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a “but”.