He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.