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Quotes by John Cumming
What we do is transacted on a stage of which all the universe are spectators. What we say is transmitted in echoes that will never cease. What we are is influencing and acting on the rest of mankind. Neutral we cannot be. Living, we act; and dead, we speak; and the whole universe is the mighty company forever looking, forever listening, and all nature the tablets, forever recording the words, the deeds, the thoughts, the passions of mankind.— filed under Influence
Dignity and rank and riches are all corruptible and worthless; but moral character has an immortality that no sword-point can destroy.— filed under Worth