All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.