"Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficiently frequent repetition of error, if not contradicted, passes for truth."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lessened the toil of any human being."

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

"Most of the great positive evils of the world are in themselves removable, and will, if human affairs continue to improve, be in a great degree reduced in bulk."

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