Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.