No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

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

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.