When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

Self-respect will kip a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.