Henry Drummond

Our own life has to be our message.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Kindness, love, strength and determination personified!! Madiba reminds me that everything is possible!

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.