Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.