It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

The most desirable mode of education. . . . is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the...

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

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.

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.