Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.