He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

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

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

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

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.