Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
The maxim is the epigraph to chapter 12, which is titled “The Shame of Judge Driscoll”. It continues, “Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.”
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, / The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.