Power is not happiness.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

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.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.