Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.