All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.