Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.