The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Reading is seeing by proxy.