A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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Ability is sexless.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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