the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

Love alone could waken love.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.