The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick William FaberPoor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.
Frederick William FaberEternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.
Frederick William FaberMany a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Frederick William Faber