You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.