Man's rank is his power to uplift.
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.