As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

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

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.