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

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

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

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

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

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.