“All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
