The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.