The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.