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 wise man is satisfied with nothing.

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

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.

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

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.