To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

Be true to your own highest convictions.