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

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

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

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their mutual security and their protection against foreign enemies. It should impose restrictions on freedom for no other purpose.