“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
