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

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.