Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.