It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

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

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

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.