“A man given to vice is always an idealist.”

“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”

“A wise man does not wait to be given, but to always give first.”

“Prentice: Unnatural vice can ruin a man.
Rance: Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.”

“Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.”

“Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.”

“Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.”

“The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it.”

“Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists and materialists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things—it fits.”