His education had now commenced: an education in the principles of heroic action, by John Adams, the colossus of the American Revolution.

How devoted he was to this important charge, and with what true philosophy he conducted it, may be seen by the following letter written about that time by him, to Mrs.Adams: "Human nature, with all its infirmities and depravation, is still capable of great things.

It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and of goodness which we have reason to believe appear respectable in the estimation of superior intelligences.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.

The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing.
"Newton and Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study.