He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shews how efficacious is its intercession for redress of grievances and re-establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.