“A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.”

“The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.”

“A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.”

“Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.”

“No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.”

“And the second as an old man might say it about the weather; not without sincerity but certainly without fervour.”