Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.