No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.