No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.