In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.