But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Spring-an experience in immortality.

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.