“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties”
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties”
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm”
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good”
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization”
“None but blockheads copy each other”
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only”