He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

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.

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

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

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.

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.