Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

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.

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.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

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

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.

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