If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

Honesty is better than any policy.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.