Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

Virtue can only flourish among equals.