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.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.