Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

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

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

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