Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this get out of the profession.

A child from the time he can think should think about all he sees should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty should work so that all men can be honest and should be honest himself.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles but producing them. They live by work not trade.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Men cannot count they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters not as sparring partners.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

If the highest things are unknowable then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

But the Wisdom of God which is His only-begotten Son being in all respects incapable of change or alteration and every good quality in Him being essential and such as cannot be changed and converted His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

Where fear is present wisdom cannot be.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.