To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

Language is the light of the mind

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.