It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.