To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. – Phillips Brooks
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. – Phillips Brooks
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. – Phillips Brooks
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks