He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

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

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

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