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.

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

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

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

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

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

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.