Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.