We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

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

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.