Fear is the parent of cruelty.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

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.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

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