Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of….

War is a crime which involves all other crimes..

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration..

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties..

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that al….

I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, ….

Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculate….

The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and othe….

Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the chil….

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, per….

I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,--violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything ….

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty ….

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything..

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array....

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself..

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave..