“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.