...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.