Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

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.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.