The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

The pest of society is egotists.

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.