“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”

“..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.”

“Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;”

“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”

“I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it.”

“...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.”

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”