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.

Power is not happiness.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

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

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

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