The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.