Power Is Not Happiness. Security And Peace

There Can Be No Passion, And By Consequence No Love, Where There Is Not Imagination.

Self-respect To Be Nourished In The Mind Of The Pupil, Is One Of The Most Valuable Results Of A Well Conducted Education.

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.

Whenever Truth Stands In The Mind Unaccompanied By The Evidence Upon Which It Depends, It Cannot Properly Be Said To Be Apprehended At All.

Whenever Government Assumes To Deliver Us From The Trouble Of Thinking For Ourselves, The Only Consequences It Produces Are Those Of Torpor And Imbecility.