Power Is Not Happiness.

The Proper Method For Hastening The Decay Of Error, Is Not, By Brute Force, Or By Regulation Which Is One Of The Classes Of Force, To Endeavour To Reduce Men To Intellectual Uniformity; But On The Contrary By Teaching Every Man To Think For Himself.

As The True Object Of Education Is Not To Render The Pupil The Mere Copy Of His Preceptor, It Is Rather To Be Rejoiced In, Than Lamented, That Various Reading Should Lead Him Into New Trains Of Thinking.

One Of The Prerogatives By Which Man Is Eminently Distinguished From All Other Living Beings Inhabiting This Globe Of Earth, Consists In The Gift Of Reason.

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.