It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.