There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.