Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbec….

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind..

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination..

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness..