Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.