Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.