All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

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

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.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.