Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.