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.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

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.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

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

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.