Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.