The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.