When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

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.