The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.