Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.