Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The great hope of society is in individual character.