“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
