“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”

“Anything is better than stagnation.”

“better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother”

“How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.”

“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”

“There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”

“You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this.”