I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.