The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

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

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

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

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.

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.

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