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 ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

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

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

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.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.