Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all?

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

At this time of great need for values such as goodness, virtue, and modesty, religion is increasingly targeted as the barrier instead of being embraced as a savior. This lie needs to be rejected---not by words, but by example.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

People before paper; stories before statistics.

Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find that a traveling woman - perhaps especially a traveling feminist - becomes a kind of celestial bartender.

My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Given what we have and what we know, we ought to be a better people than we are. We ought to be more Christlike, more forgiving, more helpful and considerate to all around us.

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all—such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.