Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.