Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

Love is respect, recognition and honourgiven without expectation.

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

Pity melts the mind to love.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.