Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.