I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at least, of His disciples, there goes out to them a flood of sympathy that would fain sweep them up to the firm footing of the rock of safety.

We work and that is godlike.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.