Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.