Tact is the result of refined sympathy. - Arthur Helps

Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.

It has always appeared to me that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss—a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.