Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.