I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.