The soul is... but an empty word, of which no one has any idea, and which an enlightened man should use only to signify the part in us that thinks...

[H]e who has the most imagination should be regarded as having the most intelligence or genius, for all these words are synonymous...

If one\'s organism is... the preeminent advantage, and the source of all others, education is the second. The best made brain would be a total loss without it...

Whatever the virtue may be, from whatever source it may come, it is worthy of esteem... Mind, beauty, wealth, nobility, although the children of chance, all have their own value, as skill, learning and virtue have theirs.