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.

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.

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.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

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

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.