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

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

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

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

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

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.