Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.