Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

To get Congress to do anything.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.