Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.