“What is morally wrong can never be politically right.”

“The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary.”

“Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their standard, and imagine nothing so barbarous or savage but what is contrary to the manners of their own time.”

“Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others' words and actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by you to any life in any form, animal or human, is as harmful as it would e if caused to your own self.”

“Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born? ”

“Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.”

“Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.”