Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shook, it shines. - Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Plato defines man "the hunter of truth," "for science is a chase, and in a chase the pursuit is always of greater value than the game."

The discovery of the art of Printing unbarred afresh the gates of Heaven, and let in that flood of light, of knowledge, and of wisdom, which enabled men to emancipate themselves again from the slavery of superstition—to take their proper place in the ranks of created beings—and in ennobling themselves, in gradually exalting their understandings and amending their hearts, to pay at length the worthiest homage to the goodness of their common Parent, and prove themselves to be—as the Almighty himself originally formed them—inferior only to the Angels.

The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity — the doing nothing for him which he is able to do for himself.