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" No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. "

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" 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. "

" Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other. "

" Act up to the magnitude of your destiny. "

" When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred. "

" Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes. "

" What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us? "

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

" How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude! "

" We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we do not in some degree remove ourselves from the circumstances in which we stand and substitute those by which the real actors were surrounded. "

" The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. "

" My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books. "

" Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. "

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

" 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. "

" The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. "

" When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us. "

" A world of derived beings, an immense, wide creation, requires an extended scale with various ranks and orders of existence. "

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

" Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment. "

" There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity! "

" In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain. "

" He that loves reading has everything within his reach. "

" Justice is the sum of all moral duty. "

" 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. "

" No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form. "

" It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach. "

" What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. "

" Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief. "

" Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain. "

" The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man. "