She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. . . forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it
To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.
Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.