All Quotes

Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. ”

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. ”

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. ”

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. ”

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. ”

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach. ”

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution. ”

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize. ”

The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society. ”

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters. ”