A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

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

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

Deeds survive the doers.