It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

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

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.