I have chosen for the subject of this lecture Self-culture, or the…

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

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...to …

I am a living member of the great Family of All Souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Likeness to God is the supreme gift.