Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.