A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Human nature is above all things lazy.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.