“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ”

“Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart.”

“Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without.”

“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.”

“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”

“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.”

“Everyone, at some time or another, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ”