 A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. |
| It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. |
| If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. |
| It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. |
| It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. |
| A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. |
| To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. |
| Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. |
| Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. |
| Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. |
| Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning. |
| Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. |
| It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. |
| Ability is sexless. |
| Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. |
| Growth is the only evidence of life. |
| A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. |
| The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. |
| We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. |
| To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. |
