Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.