An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.