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.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.