Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.