Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

God alone can finish.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.