In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.