Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.