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

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.

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

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.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.