Convert life into truth.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.