Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.