“ Education is the cheap defense of nations. ”

“ To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ”

“ A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ”

“ What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ”

“ It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ”

“ Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ”

“ No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ”

“ But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ”

“ If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. ”

“ Good order is the foundation of all things. ”