“theses bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than ur fellow creatures .”
“I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .”
“Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
“Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach?”
“I passed by your lodging just now, and thought: 'I'll go in to him; he is kinder than any of them, and he was there at the time.' Forgive a poor creature who's no use to anyone; i'll go away directly; I'm going....”
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”