What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.