Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Science is organized knowledge.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.