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.
The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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.
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
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.
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.
The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.