Dignity is an anachronism.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Cruelty is the only sin.