Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

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

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

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.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

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