Books Are The Depositary Of Everything That

Duty Is That Mode Of Action On The Part Of The Individual Which Constitutes The Best Possible Application Of His Capacity To The General Benefit.

He That Revels In A Well-chosen Library, Has Innumerable Dishes, And All Of Admirable Flavour.

All Education Is Despotism. It Is Perhaps Impossible For The Young To Be Conducted Without Introducing In Many Cases The Tyranny Implicit In Obedience. Go There; Do That; Read; Write; Rise; Lie Down - Will Perhaps Forever Be The Language Addressed To Youth By Age.

The First Duty Of Man Is To Take None Of The Principles Of Conduct Upon Trust; To Do Nothing Without A Clear And Individual Conviction That It Is Right To Be Done.

I Shall Attempt To Prove Two Things: First, That The Actions And Dispositions Of Mankind Are The Offspring Of Circumstances And Events, And Not Of Any Original Determination That They Bring Into The World; And, Secondly, That The Great Stream Of Our Voluntary Actions Essentially Depends, Not Upon The Direct And Immediate Impulses Of Sense, But Upon The Decisions Of The Understanding.