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

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

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.

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

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

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.