 The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. |
| There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. |
| What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? |
| Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. |
| He that loves reading has everything within his reach. |
| As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. Topics: Education |
| Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. |
| The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. |
| The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. |
| God himself has no right to be a tyrant. |
| The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. |
| There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. |
| Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. |
| Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. |
| The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. |
| In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. |
| Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. |
| 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. |
| If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. |
| Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. |
