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

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.

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a considerable degree in all ages As civilization extended, they by one means or another became most wonderfully dispersed through all countries; and at this day they are almost literally everywhere, the most conspicuous, and in the eye of reason and religion, the most respectable nation on the face of the earth.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.