Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.