As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

There is no wealth but life.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.