The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.