Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.