The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.