Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.