Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.