The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.