Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.