An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.