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

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.