If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.