Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.