“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
“There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable
“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century