Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.