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

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.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

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

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.