What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Every soil does not produce every material.

All money is essentially merchandize.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.