All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.