... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

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

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

You can't have genius without patience.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.