At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.