It is always better to say too little than too much.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.