This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
The man-at-arms is the only man.
It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.