No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

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.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.