Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.