Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

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

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

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

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