There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.