There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

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

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

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.

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

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