... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.