It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one's judgement.

My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty