Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself; and you will understand what little chance you have trying to change others.

They are able because they think they are able.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.

Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

A good husband makes a good wife.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

A young man married is a man that 's marr'd. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Words writ in waters.

Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.