It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, being left in the wide sea of conjecture without a clue from analogy or experience, I find the conjecture of a God easy, obvious, and irresistible.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.