I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

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.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.