You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.