There are no office hours for leaders.

There are no office hours for leaders

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.