Our Judgment Will Always Suspect Those Weapons

By Right, As The Word Is Employed In This Subject, Has Always Been Understood Discretion, That Is, A Full And Complete Power Of Either Doing A Thing Or Omitting It, Without The Person's Becoming Liable To Animadversion Or Censure From Another, That Is, In Other Words, Without His Incurring Any Degree Of Turpitude Or Guilt. Now In This Sense I Affirm That Man Has No Rights, No Discretionary Power Whatever.

There Is No Sphere In Which A Human Being Can Be Supposed To Act Where One Mode Of Reasoning Will Not, In Every Given Instance, Be More Reasonable Than Any Other Mode. That Mode The Being Is Bound By Every Principle Of Justice To Pursue.

In A Well-written Book We Are Presented With The Maturest Reflections, Or The Happiest Flights Of A Mind Of Uncommon Excellence. It Is Impossible That We Can Be Much Accustomed To Such Companions Without Attaining Some Resemblance To Them.

To Conceive That Compulsion And Punishment Are The Proper Means Of Reformation Is The Sentiment Of A Barbarian.

Learning Is The Ally, Not The Adversary Of Genius... He Who Reads In A Proper Spirit, Can Scarcely Read Too Much.