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" The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. "

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" Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special prerogative that we can converse with that which we cannot see and believe in that the existence of which is reported to us by none of our senses. "

" I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education. "

" Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. "

" He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. "

" Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness. "

" Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.' "

" Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake. "

" Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. "

" The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. "

" During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest repute, for and against the Trinity, original sin, and the most disputed doctrines, but I was not yet of an understanding sufficiently ripe for impartial decision, and all my inquiries terminated in Calvinism. "

" Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry; consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will admit, be exempted from restraint. "

" Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. "

" Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. "

" The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. "

" The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. "

" Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. "

" If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. "

" God himself has no right to be a tyrant. "

" What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. "

" Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions. "

" 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 man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character. "

" The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. "

" In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. "

" Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence. "

" Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain. "

" Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief. "

" There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity! "

" We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. "