Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far worse, that in our innermost soul we think cheaply of ourselves.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.