"Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity." — George Eliot

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.