“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”

“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”

“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”

“He thought that I was after him for a feather---The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.”

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”