Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

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

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.