The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.