I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Consequences are unpitying.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.