A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.