We can’t have Heaven crammed!”
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Lord Dalling (Sir Henry Bulwer) codified his life in axioms and phrases. His intimate friend, Sir Drummond Wolff, says so. (By the way, Wolff’s father was a marvellous Bible scholar. I heard him preach the sermon of my life: it was extempore, on “The Resurrection.” A great friend of his told me that Wolff did really know the Bible by heart.) These are Lord Dalling’s sayings; he quotes Talleyrand for one of his rules of life:
“Acknowledge the receipt of a book from the author at once: this relieves you of the necessity of saying whether you have read it.”
Again this is excellent:
“You cannot do anyone more good than by trying unsuccessfully to do him an injury.” (Mr. Labouchere gave me the same reason for attacking me in his paper Truth.)
“Nothing is so foolish as to be wise out of season.”
“The best trait in a man’s character is an anxiety to serve those who have obliged him once and can do so no more.”
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Nelson’s Ipsissima Verba.