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

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.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

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.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.