The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.

Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.