We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.