I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

After all, the true seeing is within.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

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.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.