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The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way

There was a Care on my Mind so to pass my Time, that nothing might hinder me from the most steady Attention to the Voice of the true Shepherd.

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

Find your sole delight and recreation in proceeding from one unselfish action to another, with God ever in mind.

Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.

With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.

The great law of morality ought to have a national as well as a personal and individual application.

The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder.

All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it, and what he feels in it.

Every man's first duty is, to improve, to educate, and elevate himself--helping forward his brethren at the same time by all reasonable methods.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

Extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.