“Our ideals are our better selves”

“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle”

“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine”

“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul”

“There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan”