The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.