Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
Power is not happiness.
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.