Force cannot give right.

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.