Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.