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.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

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

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.