Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Good breeding differs if at all from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful nay essential to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
The old cathedrals are good but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
There are good and bad times but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more and theory less and less. A fact it seems to me is a great thing a sentence printed if not by God then at least by the Devil.
To us also through every star through every blade of grass is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it he cannot act till then.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two some century or two but it is sure as life it is sure as death.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.