Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.