During World War I a friend of his asked Lloyd George who was then the British Prime Minister, “How do you manage to keep fit under all this work and worry?” “Oh,” said the Prime Minister who was busy all day for days on end but kept calm and collected, “for me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.”
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An American gentleman wrote to Granville Sharp saying that in respect for his great virtues he had named one of his sons after him. Sharp replied, “I must request you to teach him a favourite maxim of the family whose name you have given him: ‘Always endeavour to be really what you would wish to appear.’
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A perplexed young man once went with his doubts and questions to the office of Phillip Brooks. The interview was absorbing, and the young man felt quite inspired and energized. After the interview the young man realized that he had not asked any of his questions at all. ‘Never mind,’ he thought, ‘what I needed was not the solution of a special problem but the contagion of an enthusiastic spirit.
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