Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Our life is woven wind.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.