“Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.”

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

“In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.”

“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.”

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

“The less of routine, the more of life.”

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”