It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

I'll take the shooting, I've been shot a couple times before, and I think I can take it.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wak…

The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his c…