Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.