Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect..

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise..

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's conditio….

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter..

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for i….

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the ….

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christen….

Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts f….

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have bee….

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets..

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully….

NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the err….

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail..

Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the c….

Deeds survive the doers..

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night..

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error..

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind..

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen..

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge..

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his….