Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.