Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

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.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.