“If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.”

“The coward is an object to be pitied.”

“Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.”

“One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.”

“Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.”

“If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.”

“We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.”

“Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?”