Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.