I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

The only security of all is in a free press.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.