Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.