Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.