“ The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ”

“ To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. ”

“ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ”

“ Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ”

“ Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ”