If passion blindfolds you, if you are foiled by a prejudice, I also shall know.

My friend, the nursing of a single antipathy is a presumption that your motive force is personal--whether the thirst for vengeance or some internal union of a hundred indistinct little fits of egoism.

I have seen brave and even noble men fail at the ordeal of such an hour: not fail in courage, not fail in the strength of their desire; that was the misery for them! They failed because midway they lost the vision to select the right instruments put in our way by heaven.

That vision belongs solely to such as have clean and disciplined hearts.

The hope in the bosom of a man whose fixed star is Humanity becomes a part of his blood, and is extinguished when his blood flows no more.