"The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself."

"Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention."

"There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics."

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre ne…"

"You are, and haue beene feared ouer all, England's an Ile, of stoute and hardie men: Be stronge in faith, your foes d…"

"Anglia cui mater fuerat, cui Gallia nutrix, Matri nutricem praefero mente meam. Six utriusque tamen meritis praeconia…"