Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Where love is, there God is also.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.