The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.