"The expense of the institutions for education, therefore, may no doubt afford a revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense, and for rewarding a few of the more eminent teachers."

"Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life."

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

"The great source of our miseries is the comparison of our own condition with that of others."

"The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or at least to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maint…"