The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.