The food of hope is meditative action.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.