When you have found your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
The worst and best are both inclined
To snap like vixens at the truth.
But, O, beware the middle mind
That purrs and never shows a tooth!