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

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

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

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.