There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas