Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

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

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

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.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

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

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