There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.