We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.