Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.