Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.