The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.