Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Let us forget the frustrations of the past and think of our unfulfilled potential.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. . . .

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.