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?

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.

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

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

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