There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.