-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?