To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.