Henry GilesThinkers

Happiness is not the end of duty. It is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element.

Humor is of a genial quality, and closely allied to pity.

Liberty is worth whatever the best civilisation is worth.

Man is greater than a world, than systems off worlds ; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the physical than in the creation of a universe.

Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by exultant strains.