All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.