... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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.