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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
Civilisation is a conspiracy.
It's a great life, if you don't weaken.
Without humility there can be no humanity.
Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse.
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.
[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.
When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.
I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.
The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.
Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.
I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.
"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.
Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.
