Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

God made me and broke the mold.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.