He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

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

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

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.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.