Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

Trade is a social act.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?