When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.