I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

Much is published, but little printed.

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.