The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

If you are still alive, time is now, reject sin, seek righteousness.

There are two kinds of diamonds in this world: The diamond itself and the eyes full of love!

God expects from man a responsible attitude towards his given task

We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

I think it's a cop-out to say I'm a Christian but I don't ever do anything...

It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.

See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.