He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.

It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.

If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

It is not 'seeing' the light that impacts one's life; it is never 'ceasing' to see the light that impresses one's life, spirit, heart and soul.

practice 'till it becomes second nature to you.

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.

He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he knew that he came raw into the world, and accounted it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

The trodden path is the safest.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

It would have been as though he were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.

Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

Coincidence is logical.