There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

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

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