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.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

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

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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.

Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.