“If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.”

“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”

“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.”

“What if the equality between us human being, in which we completely resemble one another, were that none of us really thinks about his being loved? Preface P. 166”

“True equality consists in each drawing benefits from society in exact proportion to his social outlay, that is to his real capacity, to the beneficent use he makes of his abilities. And this equality is the natural foundation of industrial society.”

“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”

“Being religious equals being extremely loving, and being extremely loving equals being religious.”

“Stubbornness equals character roughly as lust equals love.”

“It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.”

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”