The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty