» He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
» The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
» Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
» Error is discipline through which we advance.
» Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
» No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
» To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
» It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
» No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
» True love is the parent of humility.