Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.