A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change.
Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.
Of two evils choose the least.
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
How, then, find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!
The glory of God is in man fully alive.
When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.
A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.
Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.
Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.