Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.