Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?