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

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.