"The power of education to make men what they are, is almost boundless."

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, …"

"The love of money is the root of all evil: but the love of liberty is the root of all good."

"Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance."

"The government of a country by a bureaucracy is an evil of the first magnitude."