Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

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.

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

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

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

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.