The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.

Being popular doesn__ always win spiritual change. Christ didn__ pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point__o make people realize how much better they could become.

THE rule for travelling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind us. The object of travelling is to see and learn; but such is our impatience of ignorance, or the jealousy of our self-love, that we generally set up a certain preconception beforehand (in self-defence, or as a barrier against the lessons of experience,) and are surprised at or quarrel with all that does not conform to it. Let us think what we please of what we really find, but pr

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...