When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.