Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.