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.

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.

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!

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.