It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.
Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.