Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

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.

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

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.