Quotes from George Herbert Palmer

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

a loss unconsidered at the time. But to decide for anything is to decide against a multitude of other things. Taking is still more largely leaving. The full extent of this negative decision often escapes our notice, and through the very fact of choosing a good we blindly neglect a best.

Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.