Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.