Knowledge is essential to freedom.
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
Real greatness has nothing to do with a manโs sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.