Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

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.

Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

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

No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.