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

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

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

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

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

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.