“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum
“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
“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.