One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.