Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.