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.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

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

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

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

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

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.