The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

It is all in the way of professional experience.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?