If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.