It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.