Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs.

Life is uncertain.Lord grant us gracious courage to face the uncertainty of life.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Donald Trump is a threat economically to America.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

The heart of change is in the emotions.

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Don't magnify your problems, magnify your God...he's got you covered.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.