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 truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

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.

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.