My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.