The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.