 But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. |
| To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. |
| What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. |
| Justice is the sum of all moral duty. |
| The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. |
| We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. |
| 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. |
| It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. |
| 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. |
| Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. |
| The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. |
| There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. |
| 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 great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. |
| Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. |
| They held it their duty to live but for their country. |
| Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. |
| Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. |
| Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man. |
