Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.

That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us read more

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.

The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends read more

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.