Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at prese…