We Must Not Waste Life In Devising

Let Every Man, If Possible, Gather Some Good Books Under His Roof.

The World Is To Be Carried Forward By Truth, Which At First Offends, Which Wins Its Way By Degrees, Which The Many Hate And Would Rejoice To Crush.

Labor Is Discovered To Be The Grand Conqueror, Enriching And Building Up Nations More Surely Than The Proudest Battles.

I Call That Mind Free Which Protects Itself Against The Usurpations Of Society, And Which Does Not Cower To Human Opinion: Which Refuses To Be The Slave Or Tool Of The Many Or Of The Few, And Guards Its Empire Over Itself As Nobler Than The Empire Of The World.

Men Are Never Very Wise And Select In The Exercise Of A New Power.