Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.