The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.