Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.