There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.