Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes – the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
Power is not happiness.
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.