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Power is not happiness.
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.
If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.
Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!
Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.
Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.