The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes.

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.