Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.

The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.