That man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage.

Man cannot remain with no way out.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Will it always stay like this?"
"Nothing," said Hostetter, "ever stays always like anything.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

For he that is fallen low did never firmly stand.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.......

It was as if his spirit were in prison. It would have been nice, indeed, to be that water, never staying, passing, passing; or wind, touching everything, never caught. To be able to do nothing without hurting someone - that was what was so ghastly.

If only one were like a flower, that just sprang up and lived its life all to itself, and died. But whatever he did, or said now, would be like telling lies, or else being cruel. The only thing was to keep away from people.

Dreams can never be made captive.

No man becomes bad all at once.

Dream wounds, dream ties
Do not bind him there
In a kingdom where
He is unaware
Of his wounds, of his snare.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.