Trust your heart rather than your head.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.