It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.

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

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.