Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.