We do not live by justice, but by grace.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.