Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.