You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.