If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

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