He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
Trifles make the sum of life.
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.