Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression