In charity there is no excess.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One’s enough.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
Broken, like a mosaic, I am pieced together. I am still a piece of art, though I may not be fully appreciated by all, the ones that see the beauty, are the ones who have the understanding; gained through experience, that to break, doesn’t mean to give up.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
