Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Language is the dress of thought.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.