To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.