Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

The world belongs to the energetic.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.