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.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.