The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth.

All men who reflect on controversial matters should be free from hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts, being appeals from right to might and from argument to artillery.

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

Discord gives a relish for concord.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.