“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”

“what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?”

“What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!”

“What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.”

“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”

“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”