My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

I believe in deeply ordered chaos