There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

The purpose creates the machine.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.