Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.