The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

All our knowledge begins with the senses...