Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.