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

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

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.

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

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

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

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.