Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

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

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

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.