Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

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

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.