The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

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.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

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

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.