We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.