Health is the requisite after morality

The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.