Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.