The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
I will never retire.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.