The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

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

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.