The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

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

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!