Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: ‘Schade, daß die Natur nur...

Unless one is at heart a rascal, I think he becomes a little better in many ways by assuming leadership.

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.