The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.