All promise outruns performance.
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Here’s the thing: the world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life.
I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.
He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
By indignities men come to dignities.
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
The quieter you become, you more you are able to hear.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
