Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.