Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.