The First Duty Of Man Is To

Revolution Is Engendered By An Indignation With Tyranny, Yet Is Itself Pregnant With Tyranny.... An Attempt To Scrutinize Men's Thoughts And Punish Their Opinions Is Of All Kinds Of Despotism The Most Odious: Yet This Is Peculiarly Character Of A Period Of Revolution.... There Is No Period More At War With The Existence Of Liberty.

No Man Must Encroach Upon My Province, Nor I Upon His. He May Advise Me, Moderately And Without Pertinaciousness, But He Must Not Expect To Dictate To Me. He May Censure Me Freely And Without Reserve; But He Should Remember That I Am To Act By My Deliberation And Not His. I Ought To Exercise My Talents For The Benefit Of Others; But That Exercise Must Be The Fruit Of My Own Conviction; No Man Must Attempt To Press Me Into The Service.

It Is Absurd To Expect The Inclinations And Wishes Of Two Human Beings To Coincide, Through Any Long Period Of Time. To Oblige Them To Act And Live Together Is To Subject Them To Some Inevitable Potion Of Thwarting, Bickering, And Unhappiness.

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.

The Wise Man Is Satisfied With Nothing.