Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

[Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

Whatever the clouds plan to do I always trust in the sun which never fails to come out

With weapons we can kill our enemies

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

The law is above the law, you know.

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

Study everything, but study yourself first.