Surely one of the most certain of the fruits to be expected hereafter from the progress of knowledge and good sense will be that nobody, unless killed by accident, will quit life without having completed the allotted term of threescore and ten.

The misfortune of having been born and being doomed to live in almost the infancy of human improvement, moral, intellectual, and even physical, can only be made less by the communion with those who are already what all well-organised human beings will one day be, and by doing something...

Here is the burthen on the conscience of legislators at home. Can they give up the Maoris to the mercy of the more powerful section of the population? Knowing what the English are, when they are left alone with what they think an inferior race, I cannot reconcile myself to this.

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A slight change in education would make the world totally different.

The remedies for all our diseases will be discovered long after we are dead; and the world will be made a fit place to live in, after the death of most of those by whose exertions it will have been made so. lt is to be hoped that those who live in those days will look back with sympathy ...

There is hardly a more striking example of the worthlessness of posthumous reputation than the oblivion into which my father has fallen among the world at large.

The abuses of endowments are flagrant, monstrous, and wholly inexcusable. But what funds, public or private, would not be a prey to malversation if the law took no notice of it; or if, though the law was what it ought to be, there was ... no public officer whose duty it was to put the law in force?

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.