It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.
The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.