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.

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.