Fortitude
A source page for quotes linked to Hugh Walpole.
“[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.”
“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.”
“Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.”
“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.”
“Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.”
“Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.”
“Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.”