Literature, Taken In All Its Bearings, Forms

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.

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.

Revolution Is Engendered By An Indignation With Tyranny, Yet Is Itself Pregnant With Tyranny.

Revolutions Are The Produce Of Passion, Not Of Sober And Tranquil Reason.

In Cases Where Every Thing Is Understood, And Measured, And Reduced To Rule, Love Is Out Of The Question.