“Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.”

“And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.”

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...”

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”

“why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self”

“I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.”

“That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.”