Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

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.

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.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

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.