The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.