Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

Our bills shall not be killed.

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.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.