The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.