Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair, the rest is in the hands of God.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote, a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority, the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

The body has to be utilized for service to others. More bliss can be got from serving others than from merely serving oneself.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education, as it is practiced in most schools today, and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.