Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

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.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.