Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.