As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

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

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

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

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.