The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

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.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.