What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

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

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.