Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.