There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.