In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

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