A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them.