“It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.”

“Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”

“I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.”

“War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.”

“No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.”

“A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.”

“No really great man ever thought himself so.”

“Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.”

“because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.”

“Don’t ever wear artistic jewellry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.”