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

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.