The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.