Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.