 The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. |
| An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. |
| We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. |
| When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. |
| People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. |
| And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. |
| Adventure is not outside man; it is within. |
| Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. |
| No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. |
