Fear is the parent of cruelty.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

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.

Human improvement is from within outward.