Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.