Joy is the best of wine.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.