Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.