"Absoluteness of power is the most seductive of all illusions."

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

"The initiation of all wise or noble things, comes and must come from individuals; generally at first from some one individual."

"All errors which are likely to do harm, are the proper objects of animadversion, and may be justly censured."

"The strongest of all arguments against the present constitution of society is, that it does not permit the free development of every individual."