To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

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