We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.