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.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

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

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

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