The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

You may have the judge's sympathy, but the law is the law. Nobody is required to leave anybody anything.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.