The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

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

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.