That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. 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. It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.