what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot be surmounted either by themselves or by the General Government. The only barrier in their power is a wise government. A weak one will lose ground in every contest.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.