Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.