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

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

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

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

As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, ... that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement, with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity.

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