Quotes Temple

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.