Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.