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.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

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.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.