“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
The world is governed by opinion.
