When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
The opposite of compromise is character.
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.
There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.
Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.
Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!