Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being to which we rarely penetrate, for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart a gentleness of the spirit.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

It always remains true that if we had been greater circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Produce great men the rest follows.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

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