Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

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.

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

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.