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.

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.

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

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

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

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

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