“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.”
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After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.