Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

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

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

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