For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.