It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

All haste implies weakness.

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

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.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.