To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate. - Robert Owen

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; — that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.

The will of man has no power whatever over his opinions; he must, and ever did, and ever will, believe what has been, is, or may be impressed on his mind by his predecessors, and the circumstances which surround him.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.