Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. – Phillips Brooks
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. – Phillips Brooks
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. – Phillips Brooks
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne