Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. - Joseph Addison

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

I have lived in one Reign, when the Prince, instead of invigorating the Laws of our Country, or giving them their proper Course, assumed a Power of dispensing with them: And in another, when the Sovereign was flattered by a Set of Men into a Persuasion, that the Regal Authority was unlimited and uncircumscribed. In either of these Cases, good Laws are at best but a dead Letter; and by shewing the People how happy they ought to be, only serve to aggravate the Sense of their Oppressions.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.