Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

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

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

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