“Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

“Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.”

“And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.”

“Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.”

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”