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

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.

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

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

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

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.