“Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.”

“Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.”

“If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.”

“It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.”

“You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”

“The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.”

“Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.”

“Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.”

“But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?”

“You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”

“A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.”

“Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.”