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.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

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.

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

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

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

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.