You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

A friend is the hope of the heart.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

The hero is suffered to be himself.