Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

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

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

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.