“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are”

“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”

“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”

“And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish”