This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.