We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

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

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

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

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

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