"A candle can bring light to a..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you must compromise, compromise up.”

“I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.”

“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”

“[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.”

“You are either free or not free”

“Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.”

“Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.”

“It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.”

“A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.”