“Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
Good“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
Good“Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
Good“History, a distillation of rumour.”
History“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”
Good“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
Men“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
Beauty“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
Great“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
Power“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Business“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Great“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.”
Men“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.”
Government“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.”
Music“To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.”
God“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Wisdom“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
Work“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
Time“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
Patience“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”
God“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.”
Hope“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”
Truth