No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.