Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.