The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

Man cannot choose his duties.