The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.

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.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

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!

Most prisons have wide gates!

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!