Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
