Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.