My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God