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

Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.