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

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.