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

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

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.