Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

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.

True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

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

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

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.

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