To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."