The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

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

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

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.