Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Power is not happiness.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

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.