In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

Calculation never made a hero.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.