You can't have genius without patience.
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
Convictions do not imply reasons.
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
... 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.