Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.