“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much”

“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.”

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents”

“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum”

“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him”