Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.