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

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

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

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

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