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.

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

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

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.