One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

New occasions teach new duties.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.