There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.