The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

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.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

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.